What is the traditional UK-English correct spelling in: "A driving (licence or license) is proof of being (licenced or licensed) to drive"?

In maths, the single digits within every 'product' (answer) of which single number's 'times-table' (up to 10x) helpfully also add up to the number itself: 5; 7; 8; or 9? (ie the digits in the answers of this particular number's 'times-table' always add up to the number that is subject to the times-table)

Which city, mythically founded by a twin saved by a she-wolf, was built on the seven hills, east of the River Tiber called Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal and Viminal?

The splanchnocranium refers to the bones of which defining part of the human body? Face (or front of the skull, or facial skeleton, or viscerocranium, or equivalent)

The grammatical term for a word which joins two independent clauses is a: Conjunction; Punctuation; Preposition; or Expletive? Conjunction (such as 'and' and 'but')

Mnemosyne (pronounced 'nemmoseeny') is the Greek goddess Mother of the Muses and also goddess of: Communication; Memory; Geometry; or Blasphemy? Memory(related to the word mnemonic, a memory aid, and Greek mnemon, 'nemon', meaning mindful)

What is the traditional UK-English correct spelling in: "A driving (licence or license) is proof of being (licenced or licensed) to drive"? A driving licence is proof of being licensed to drive. (This general rule of C for noun and S for verb traditionally applies to words offering similar option, eg, advice/advise, practice/practise, etc, although in modern and US-English language some flexibility applies, and progressively in UK-English too, although 'advice' [noun] and 'advise' [verb] remain distinctly exclusive everywhere as at early 21stC, despite common error - words such as device and devise are less prone to error, and help remind us of the rule for more confusing examples)

In maths, the single digits within every 'product' (answer) of which single number's 'times-table' (up to 10x) helpfully also add up to the number itself: 5; 7; 8; or 9? (ie the digits in the answers of this particular number's 'times-table' always add up to the number that is subject to the times-table) 9 (eg 3x9=27 and 2+7=9, 6x9=54 and 5+4=9, 8x9=72 and 7+2=9; sorry, this is a tricky question to word properly.. but it's such a good maths aid that it's worth sharing)

Which city, mythically founded by a twin saved by a she-wolf, was built on the seven hills, east of the River Tiber called Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal and Viminal? Rome (after Romulus, twin of Remus in Roman mythology)

What is three-eights (3/8) divided by nine-elevenths (9/11)? Thirty-three seventy-seconds (or 33/72 or roughly 0.45333 in decimals - to divide a fraction by a fraction, invert the second fraction [turn it upside-down] and multiply top x top, and bottom x bottom, to produce the new fraction answer, thus 3x11=33 on the top and 9x8=72 on the bottom)

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